Urban structure can be best understood in terms of Adaptive Networks, Complexity Theory, Biological Systems, and Self-organization. A city planned according to these principles is more human, livable, and sustainable; it validates spontaneous self-built settlements; and rejects the top-down industrial-modernist model.
Books and Composite Documents in Urbanism of Adaptive Networks
2019
2015
Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, and the Human Future. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
2005
Principles of Urban Structure. Amsterdam: Techne Press, 2005.
Articles and Projects in Urbanism of Adaptive Networks
2021
"Spontaneous Cities: Lessons to Improve Planning for Housing." Land 10, no. 5 (2021): 535.
2020
Colonial Modernism Strikes Again!. Archdaily and Architexturez Imprints, 2020.
2019
A Schizophrenic Approach to Building Cities. Meeting of the Minds, 2019.
"Chapter 1: Design That Establishes Emotional Ownership." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 16: Powerful tools for efficient design and repair." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"规划新知：老城区的改造之路，到底还要走多远？（系列文章1)." In 居住组团：设计联系情感/Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. iArch-China, ArchDaily China, 2019.
"Chapter 5: The Experience of Christopher Alexander." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 3: A Geometry of Control." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 15: A twenty-two step generative code." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"社会组织住房：泛爱性，联系性，以及精神性." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. iArch-China, ArchDaily China, 2019.
"Chapter 4: Biophilia, Connectivity, and Spirituality." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 14: Maintenance Strategy." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 10: Practical Suggestions for Making Projects Work." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 19: Uncomfortable Realities." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 12: Focus on the small scale." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 13: Either work with, or circumvent the system." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 2: Antipatterns of Social Housing." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 18: Urbanism and liberation." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 8: Layout Strategy." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 11: The Need for Adaptable Materials." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 9: Layout Sequence." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 17: Problems and Solutions." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 7: Examples of Patterns and Generative Codes." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
"Chapter 6: Construction Strategy." In Socially-Organized Housing: a New Approach to Urban Structure. Architexturez Imprints, 2019.
2018
"Campus Design." Public Square. A CNU Journal (2018).
"Socio-cultural identity in the age of globalization." New Design Ideas 2, no. 1 (2018): 5-19.
2017
"Eight city types and their interactions: the “eight-fold” model." Technical Transactions 114, no. 2 (2017): 5-70.
2016
"Geometry and life of urban space." In 11th Virtual City & Territory International Monograph Book, 13-31. Barcelona, Spain: Centre of Land Policy and Valuations (Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions), 2016.
2015
"Ch 15. Computational Irreducibility." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 156-164. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
""On Exactitude in Science", by Jorge Luis Borges. - Appendix to Chapter 15." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 221-223. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 04. The Geometry of Resilience." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 50-60. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 16. Alexander's Radical Technology." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 166-174. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 11. Evidence-Based Design." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 124-130. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 05. Agile Design." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 61-74. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 17. Alexander's Sustainable Technology." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 175-179. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 06. Scaling and Fractals." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 76-85. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 12. Biophilia." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 131-137. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 07. Intelligence and the Information Environment." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 86-92. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 18. Alexander's Pattern Technology." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 180-187. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 01. Biology Lessons." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 18-28. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 13. Self-Organization." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 138-146. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 08. The Meaning of Complexity." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 93-100. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 19. Alexander's Living Technology." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 188-197. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 02. Why Green Often Isn't." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 29-38. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 14. The Network City." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 147-155. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Introduction." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 10-16. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 09. The Transformation of Wholes." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 101-110. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 20. Alexander's "Wholeness-Generating" Technology." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 198-208. Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"Ch 03. How Modernism Got Square." In Design for a Living Planet: Settlement, Science, & the Human Future, 39-49. DFLAP. Levellers/Sustasis Press and Vajra Publications, 2015.
"The «Law of Requisite Variety» and the Built Environment." Journal of Biourbanism 4, no. 1&2 (2015): 47-52.
2014
The networked city and Peer-to-Peer Urbanism In Iaac bits, Implementing Advanced Knowledge. Talk given to the IAAC — Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia, Barcelona, 19 July 2011. Barcelona, 2014.
"A Future Without Starchitects." In Kaleidoscope City: Reflections on Planning and London, edited by Jonathan Manns, 123-131. London: Birdcage Print/RTPI Press, 2014.
2013
"In conversation with Prof. Nikos Salingaros." ArchiAfrika Magazine, no. April (2013).
Energy Advice: Think Long Term and at the Local Level!, Edited by Mumtaz Soogund. Permaculture Research Institute, 2013.
2012
Ch 10. Complex Adaptive Systems In Metropois Magazine. Metropois Magazine, 2012.
"Beauty, Life, and the Geometry of the Environment." In Reclaiming Beauty: Collected Essays in Political Anthropology, edited by James B. Cuffe and Agnes Horvath, 272. Ficino Press, 2012.
"Urbanism as Computation." In Complexity Theories of Cities Have Come of Age: An Overview with Implications to Urban Planning and Design, edited by Juval Portugali, Han Meyer, Egbert Stolk and Ekim Tan, 245-268. Berlin: Springer, 2012.
2011
"A tecnologia sustentável de Christopher Alexander." publisher: zeta.math.utsa.edu, 2011.
2010
"Urban nuclei and the geometry of streets: The ‘emergent neighborhoods’ model." URBAN DESIGN International 15, no. 1 (2010): 22-46.
"Geospatial Analysis and Living Urban Geometry." In Geospatial Analysis and Modelling of Urban Structure and Dynamics, edited by Bin Jiang and Xiaobai Yao, 331-353. Vol. 99. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2010.
2008
"Growing Sustainable Suburbs: An Incremental Strategy for Reconstructing Sprawl." In New Urbanism and Beyond: Designing Cities for the Future, edited by Tigran Haas. Rizzoli, 2008.
"Connecting the Fractal Coast: Plenary talk at the 7o Laboratorio Internazionale d’Architettura, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Italy, 22 September 2008." Italy: Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria, 2008.
2007
"Let Children Help Design our Cities." Raise the Hammer, no. November 27 (2007).
2006
"Compact City Replaces Sprawl." In Crossover: Architecture, Urbanism, Technology, edited by Arie Graafland and Leslie Kavanaugh, 100-115. DSD Series Vol. 1 . Rotterdam, Holland: 010 Publishers, 2006.
2005
"Towards a New Urban Philosophy: The Case of Athens." In Shifting Sense in Spatial Planning: Looking Back to the Future, edited by Edward Hulsbergen, Ina Klaasen and Iwan Kriens, 265-280. Design Science Planning. Amsterdam: Techne Press, 2005.
2004
"Design methods, Emergence, and Collective Intelligence." Katarxis Nº 3: New Science, New Urbanism, New Architecture? 3, no. 3 (2004).
"The Information Architecture of Cities." Journal of Information Science 30, no. 2 (2004): 107-118.
2003
"Connecting the Fractal City." In 5th Biennial of towns and town planners in Europe. Barcelona, 2003.
"Pattern Language and Interactive Design." Poiesis Architecture, no. 15 (2003).
2001
Remarks on a City's Composition. RUDI--Resource for Urban Design Information, 2001.
2000
"Complexity and Urban Coherence." Journal of Urban Design 5 (2000): 291-316.
"The Structure of Pattern Languages." arq -- Architectural Research Quarterly 4 (2000): 149-161.
1999
"Urban Space and its Information Field." Journal of Urban Design 4 (1999): 29-49.
"A Universal Rule for the Distribution of Sizes." Environment and Planning B: Planning and Design 26 (1999): 909-923.
1998
"Theory of the Urban Web." Journal of Urban Design 3 (1998): 53-71.